The Delta independent., 1887-06-14

Is 40 per cent. below the average. There is
an increase of 25 per cent. in the corn area
and its condition was never better.
The Kentucky distillers have voted
to cease production from July l, 1857, until
October /, 1888. They have about s9,ooo,.
600 gallons on hand and the demand does
| not justify further manufacture.
The Massachusetts, Senate has finally
passed the bill submitting a prohibitory
constitutional amendment to the people
and it now goes o the House. 1t will need
two-thirds vote to pass the after body.
Southern Arizona consumes nearly
five million pounds of wheat and -four in
excess of the amount it grows. The water
| bitches now in couIse Of construction will
in part, II not entirely, do away with this
! Importation.
Sir Edward Tichborne has offered
the claimant small annuity il he
will make an affidavit for publication, af'
ter DEATH OF the true facts of the Orton-
Castro conspiracy. 'Sir Roger" will none
of it, however:
Lewis Beyer, d wealthy ranchman. is
under arrest at Butte, Montana, with
| Thomas Bocord, his accomplice, On the
charge of attempting to wreck trains on the
Utah Northern road by placing obstrue'
tions on the track.
A Texas and Pacific express train
VIZ. tdbbed by four masked men, eight
| miles from Fort Worth Sunday night and
| s., 900 were taken from the express car and
three registered letters from the mail car.
Passenger, not molested.
Frederick Hermstitt,n Pittsburg man,
killed his l9mnnths-old daughter, beat his
wife fatally and then cut his own throat.
He was a Lutheran and his wife was
Catholic. She had the baby baptized ac-
cording to her faith and this caused the
tragedy.
The city council of Charleston, ;.
| c., has presented to the earthquake COM
mittee- handsome bronze plaque bearing
the seal of the city and the palmetto
wreath of the State as token OF the city
appreciation of their services during the
earthquake excitement.
A dispatch from Benson. Arizona,
says: Thirty Indians are stated to be on
the warpath. instead of seventeen, as first
reported. Delhi, their first victim, was a
| Union veteran. 1t is feared that two white
men who were working at Table Mountain
on the Oak Grove train, have become vic
Tins"
The incoming steamers landed ?.
72S emigrants at Castle Garden Friday.
| The new rule to hold all children under
sixteen years of age, who are eunaccompanied
BY proper guardians, went into effect that
morning. Several boys were found td be
alone. and they were held for an investiga'
ton.
| An experiment in fish cult re Is
| Utah, with shad from the breeding station
near Point Lookout, on the Chesapeake.
| During the present week one of the fish
commission cars reached Salt Lake with =
1Oo, 600 young shad to be placed in the lake.
1t is an experiment, but the fish commits
sion officials believe that the physical con-
dition of the waters there will make 1t a
complete success.
The Grant Monument Association
has issued circular, calling for designs
for monument or memorial building to be
erected upon the site of General Grants
tomb. The structure 10 to be of granite,
marble, bronze or other suitable material,
singly or in combination, and it may in
ciude both architecture or sculpture. The
designs will be passed upon by jury OF
architects and artists. They should be sent
before November to the Office of the as
sociation, No. I46 Broadway.
The New York World recently had
SO samples of groceries analyzed to ties,
| their purity. OF the 100 samples of tea
cighty-eicht were pure aud twelve adulter.
ate but in no case seriously, n proof that
the better grades of tea come to this coun.
try In coffee, of seventy-two samples,
twenty eight, or over one.third were adul'
terated. But of these twenty.one were
adultera,ed only with chicory, mixture
which the law recognizes, although the ad
ditional requirement that the percentage be
stamped on each package was in no case
followed. Five samples had peas as well as
chicory and two woody fibre and dirt
| The proportion of chicory is not given
but that it should be present in but TWEEN
ty-one cases and that forty-four should bt
| free altogether and only seven samples
show serious adulteration, or one-tenth, /:
a much better showing than past record:
of coffee would have led one to expect Oi
100 samples of sugar, but two were adul
terated, a remarkable proof of averag,
honesty. Exactly one-tenth of the pack
ages were short weight by an ounce, mort
or less.
The Pucnio smelters have nine fur
naces in blast.